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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Oh man, tell me someone took them up on this. I think my favorite  90s gaming marketing was Johnny Turbo, in which the TurboGrafx-16 was embodied as a fat neckbearded programmer in an ambiguous relationship with his roommate Tony and shouted marketing slogans at evil alien drones representing Sega.
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It isn't dumb in the sense that it has so thoroughly invaded the popular consciousness and could thus be considered successful but "Blue Monday" is a total myth that was invented by a marketing agency and I hate hearing people uncritically babble about it every January.
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That Robox posted:It was real, I remember it too. Had a girl with some pot and showed a bunch of pictures as it went something like: Yeah the commercial said that drugs fund terrorism, actually saying that weed caused 9/11 was a gag on South Park.
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Eggbeater Jesus posted:Oh, there's always this classic local gem from Alabama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-RLqLx1iYI I hate to ruin the magic for you but that and a bunch of other wacky viral "local" commercials are viral marketing for a debt collection service made by these guys.
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Propitious Jerk posted:Not completely terrible as that movie resulted in someone making this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4-2cEt0hh8 . Also this, which actually landed TJ Miller a role in the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnOHz1U6xNs
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Fatkraken posted:it doesn't say that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1goS3l1V2BA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5NxG_rr5aU "Hey everyone, look! It's the guy who wrote a book about how television will turn us all into mindless drones and he's on television shilling prunes!"
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The weird thing that so many of these hygiene commercials targeting men seem to miss is that the Old Spice ads, the ones that kicked this whole trend off and are unarguably the most successful, actually targeted women. The commercial literally begins with "Hello, ladies, look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped using ladies scented body wash and switched to Old Spice, he could smell like he’s me.", the whole point was that by aiming the ad at women they would buy it for men which would in turn make more men use it. Pretty much every copycat ignores that and just lays the tryhard monkey cheese humor on extra thick to try and make up for it.
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mind the walrus posted:
This but unironically.
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Maggie Fletcher posted:My former roommate, from Norway, drives a Fit, and I'm half convinced he bought it because of the Fitta debacle. Coincidentally, fitta is one of the first Swedish words I learned. It's stupid because they're trying to score brownie points/manufacture controversy by sexualizing pregnant women but they're all still models. It's like when Dove did that thing a few years ago when they had "big" women modeling in underwear but they were still fitter and better-looking than 99% of their customers, and the internet ate it up.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I think that's pretty cool to be honest. Yeah those ad campaigns were great. It's a shame that gamers decided to  it up about them because that was back when it was cool to mindlessly hate EA before they moved on to mindlessly hating Activision, even though that was the period of time when EA were actually going out of their way to make new games.The advertising campaign for Dead Space 2 built around the fact that moms were offended by it was pretty bad, though.
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Len posted:Nerds don't need the encouragement they just do that poo poo. I was at a con once where there was a mediated discussion over the controversial topic "Cosplay is not consent." Hell one time I was walking through the vendor hall and heard one of the girls freaking out on a guy because she was trying to do her job and teach someone to play a boardgame and he wouldn't leave her alone. Yeah, it's really not EA's fault that gamers can't tell the difference between getting your picture with a woman in a costume as part of a scavenger hunt and actual sexual harassment. VVVVVV I rest my case. ...of SCIENCE! has a new favorite as of 00:53 on Dec 21, 2014 |
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